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atta-l: )bitte Letters Patent N 96,657, dated Norember 9, 1869.

MoTWE-Povvrin The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom tt may concern: v

Be it known 'that I, ALBERT M. BACON, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Motive-Power, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view, representing a series of wires, placed within a frame, and connected by suitable gearing, the whole constituting my improved motive-power.

Figure 2 is an end'clevation.

Figure 3, det-ail to bereferred to.

My invention consists in a series of wires, so arranged and provided with gearing that they may he twisted, to form a spring, the tension or power of which will correspond to the degree of twist given to the wires, the release of the spring, and the eonsequent unwinding of the wires, creating the desired force, thevexpemliture of which may be regulated by suitable n1ecluu1ism,lhe power being applied in driving-various descriptions of stationary machinery, or for propelling cars, carriages, boats, and other apparatus now actuated by steam, water, heat, or other wellknown motive-power.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried it out.

In the said drawings- A represents a box or frame-work, across the interior, and through the parallel sides a l1 of which passes t shaft, B, having secured, at one of its ends, a cogwheel, C, which drives asimilar cog-wheel, D, into and through which pass the ends of a series of three wires, c, of tempered steel, or other suitable metal, which extend through the side a, and across the interior ofthe frame-work, and through the side b, where their opposite ends are iirmly secured to a gear, E, similar to those C I), both ends of the series of wires passing through their respective wheels, and having collars F. slipped over them, for the reception of couplings or links 5, in order to prevent the separation of the wheels C l), (intended to engage with each other,)

and for keeping the wheel E in gear with a similarI wheel, G, on the extremities of a series of three wires,

d, (similar to the series 0,) passing through the interior of the box or frame-work, and at a short distance from the series c.

H is another similar gear, (secured to the' opposite ends of the wires of the series d,) which meshes into a corresponding wheel, I,through which pass the ends of another series of wires, e, extending across the box, the wheels H and I beinglkept in gear by a coupling or link, 5, similar to that already described.

The extremities of the 4series, e, of wires opposite to those secured to the wheel l, are firmly secured vto a gear, K, similar to those previously described, which is coupled with and drives acorresponding gear, L, on the extremities of another series,-f, of wires, passing through the sides a b, and across the frame-work.

M is a cog-wheel, to which are secured the opposite ends of the series f of wires, the wheel M engaging with and driving a corresponding gear, N, secured to another series, g, of wires, to the opposite ends of which is also secured a gear, O, which, iuits turn, is coupled with and drives a gear, P, secured to the ends of another series, It, of wires, the opposite ends of this' last series being rigidly fastened to a block, Q, attached to the side of the frame-work.

The several wheels, C, D, E, G, H, I, K, L, M, N,

yO, and P, are provided with holes, for the reception of the ends of the wires, as seen in fig. 3, by' which construction, when power is applied, by crank or otherwise, to revolve the shaft B, the several gears are causedA to-turn, and cach lwire of each series is twistedl around the remaining twoV wires of its series, and a spring of great tension is4 thus produced, the degree and duration ofthe power being determined by the number of wires or series if wires employed, and the number of revolutions giw 11 the shaft B.

In practice, I intendvto employ wires from six to twenty feet in length, and to place a large number of them close together, within a suitable box or frame work, thereby multiplying the power to therequired amount.

It' preferred, instead of a series of three wires, a single wire, with its ends securely fastened to the cogwheels, (so as to prevent it from turning independently therein,) or two or more wires, may be employed; and, instead of the wire or wiresheing circular in cross-section, they may he square, without departing from the spirit' of my invent-ion.

By means of the construction above described, any

amount of power may be created, and its expenditure regulated by suitable mechanism, so that it may be applied in propelling street-carriages, velocipedes, railway-cars, boats, &c., or for driving machinery in build- What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A series of wires, arranged either singly or in groups, and connected by suitable gearing, substantially as and 

